ACM BCB 2013 Call for Workshop Proposals

[Kang Li]

ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical
Informatics (BCB) 2013 (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2013): Call
for workshop proposals

September 22-25, 2013
Washington D.C., USA


The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and
Biomedical Informatics (ACM BCB) 2013 provides a premier forum for
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing
disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology,
bioinformatics, and biomedicine. The ACM-BCB-2013 organizing committee
invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the
conference. The purpose of a workshop is to provide participants with
the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on active
and emerging topics in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and
Biomedical Informatics.

Workshops that focus on a challenge problem, e.g., flexible docking,
computational drug design, or emerging topics e.g., computational
immunology and vaccinology, analysis of protein-RNA interactions,
multi-scale modeling, are especially welcome. Please note that the
conference does not have funding for invitation of workshop speakers.
All workshop attendees are expected to register for the conference.
Student participants in the workshops can apply for a limited number
of student travel fellowships from the conference on a competitive
basis.

The workshops organizers must be prepared to create a workshop web
page to be linked to the main conference web page, announce the
workshop and call for papers, gather submissions, conduct the review
process and decide the final workshop program. The workshop
proceedings will be part of ACM BCB 2013 proceedings. The logistics of
the workshops will be coordinated with help from the ACM BCB-2013
organizers.

Workshop Proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length and must
include the following:
• Description of the workshop abstract, objectives, goals,
relevance, and expected outcome
• Description of workshop topic and the associated research issues
• Description of the target audience
• One or more potential invited speakers
• Past workshops and other related recent workshops
• Preferred duration of the workshop (full day or half day)
• Contact information (address, email, and phone) for all organizers
• A designated contact person

The organizers may include 2 additional pages to provide the following
additional information:
• A list of potential authors
• A list of potential attendees

Proposals should be submitted by email (with subject "ACM-BCB 2013
Workshop Proposal") to Umit V.Catalyurek (cataly...@osu.edu).

Key dates for the ACM-BCB Workshops:
Submission deadline: March 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2013


Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Maryland
Cathy Wu, University of Delaware and Georgetown University

Program Co-chairs
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
Donna Slonim, Tufts University

Workshop Chair
Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University

Publicity Chair
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri, Columbia

Local Arrangement Chairs
Amarda Shehu, George Mason Unviersity
Liliana Floria, Johns Hopkins University

Tutorial Chair
Clare Bates Congdon, University of Southern Maine
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University

Steering Committee
Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, Chair
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, Conference Director

Registration Chair
Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University

Proceedings Chair
Jing Gao, State University of New York at Buffalo

Industry Chair
Anastasia Christianson, AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical

Panel Chair
Iosif Vaisman, George Mason University

Exhibit / System Demo Chair
Nathan Edwards, Georgetown University

Jianlin Jack Cheng, PhD
ACM-BCB Publicity Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Informatics Institute
University of Missouri, Columbia
Email: che...@missouri.edu
Phone: 573-882-7306
Fax: 573-882-8318
Office: 109 Engineering Building West
http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~chengji/